To: FreeReign
Can we please not use the term Native American, especially when describing how they migrated here. I use the term "Native American" because the term "Indian" is wildly inaccurate, and there is no accurate term by which to call them. "Native American" is the best among poor choices.
10 posted on
09/02/2013 10:05:15 AM PDT by
exDemMom
(Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
To: exDemMom
I use the term "Native American" because the term "Indian" is wildly inaccurate"Indian" is a morphing of "en Dios," the second half of what the Spanish missionaries called the continental inhabitants: "niños en Dios," meaning children in God.
"Native American" is the best among poor choices.
I would think that the best choice, though it will never catch on south of the Canadian border, is "First Nations," meaning the nations who were here first.
14 posted on
09/02/2013 11:27:56 AM PDT by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: exDemMom
"I use the term "Native American" because the term "Indian" is wildly inaccurate, and there is no accurate term by which to call them. "Native American" is the best among poor choices. " How about Paleo-Americans.
There are no humans native to the Americas...everybody migrated here.
16 posted on
09/02/2013 11:52:00 AM PDT by
blam
To: exDemMom
"Native American" is the best among poor choices. How about "Amerindian"? Still has lot of syllables though.
Personally, I like "NDN".
19 posted on
09/02/2013 2:52:51 PM PDT by
Max in Utah
(A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
To: exDemMom
I use the term “Siberian American”
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